In a message dated 2/23/2009 9:08:03 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
 writes:

Now my  possibly silly question. The crows kept making a ruckus.Suddenly I 
heard a  Red-Shouldered Hawk screaming. I looked for the hawk unsuccessfully. I 
truly  sounded as if the hawk was right in the midst of the crows. Couldn't 
see it.  The owl flushed. Crows followed it. No sign of a buteo. Well, maybe I 
just had  a shy hawk sitting in front of me. Then I wondered at the many times 
I have  been fooled by blue jays sounding like a red-shouldered. Could other 
corvids  have a similar ability? Has anyone out there heard of such a  thing?

Thanks

Don Burggraf



Don,
Not exactly, but once at Layhill Park (Montgomery County) I watched a Great  
Horned Owl fly into a thick cedar tree, followed by a Red-shouldered Hawk 
which  landed in the same tree and began harassing the owl. So it may well have 
been a  hawk you heard. Don't know exactly why the hawks don't like the owl, but 
for the  same reasons as the crows I suppose.

Rick Sussman
Woodbine,MD
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